21767. Adulteration of   apples.      U.   S.   v.   41   Bushels   of   Apples.     Default 
—   decree  of destruction.     (F. & D. no.  31641.     Sample no.  57722-A.)
This case invoh-ed an interstate shipment of apples that were found to 
bear arsenic and lead in amounts that might have rendered them injurious 
to health.
On October 16, 1933, the United States attorney for the Northern District 
of Texas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
district court a libel praying seizure and condemnation of 41 bushels of apples 
at Miles, Tex., alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate com- 
merce on or about October 5, 1933, by J. D. Simmons, from the State of 
Oklahoma into the State of Texas, and charging adulteration in violation 
of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in that it con- 
tained added poisonous ingredients, arsenic and lead, which might have 
rendered it injurious to health.
On October 17, 1933, the allegations of the libel having been admitted by 
the owner of the property, judgment was entered ordering that the apples 
be destroyed by the United States marshal.
M. JJ. WILSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.